Red Deer Rebels

Jets meet the Habs at 6.00.

The Leafs face the Mammoths at 6.00. And the Canucks play the Ducks starting at 8.00. WHL, the Red Deer Rebels meet the Kamloops Blazers at 7.00. And in the AJHL, the White Court Wolverines take on the Trayton Valley Thunder.

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So a new scenery for both of these two guys in this situation.

The Edmonton Oil Kings played twice this weekend, dropping both games, losing to the Kamloops Blazers 4-1 on Friday, then falling to the Red Deer Rebels 3-2 in overtime yesterday.

Bakersfield Condors had two games this weekend as well, losing to the Abbotsford Canucks 5-1 on Friday, then again against the San Jose Barracuda.

They fell 3-2 in that one.

I was too young for that World Juniors to remember it.

So I was one of the select few that was able to see this game because I, at the time, I am in Red Deer covering the Red Deer Rebels for my job.

And...

That world junior team, the best world junior team ever assembled, had a distinct central division feel from the WHL, which consisted of the Medicine Hat Tigers, the Red Deer Rebels, the Calgary Hitmen, all that.

So Brent Sutter was the head coach, right? Red Deer Rebels legend.

And on that team, they had Dion Phaneuf, who, you know, when you look at the entirety of careers, Dion Phaneuf...

I mean, man, in junior hockey, he was better than Seabrook.

in medicine hat and i i believe uh cam uh cam barker was on that team as well but he was healthy scratch correct me if i'm wrong that might have been the next year but he was on the team okay so those guys are medicine hat anyway so that one division in in the whl had so many guys but the big stars are from calgary and red deer and then including the head coach and so they win the world junior tournament whenever it was sunday night monday night um And it was their first gold medal in X amount of years, as we know, because the year previous was the devastating Marc-Andre Fleury, Patrick Sullivan goal, all that kind of stuff.

And so, um, you know, playing my, uh, junior hockey here in St. Albert was, um, know, it's kind of the path that I wanted to go.

I actually went to Red Deer Rebels camp and, you know, it was cut actually pretty quick.

And it's funny, I ran into Peter Anhold was the general manager at the time, and I ran into him a couple of months ago at one of the ranks there.

And I said, you know, I don't know if you remember, but you cut me and I said that was probably the best thing that happened for me because then that made the decision obviously easier for me to go through the, you know, through the AGHL and then get the college scholarship.